BIB_ID
361371
Accession number
MA 1029.64
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1793 Aug. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Watermark: Crowned shield with horn inside (upper fragment). Watermark, infrared reflectography. Crown, shield, horn. 361371wm_MA_1029_64_Jefferson_WM_IR.jpg
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Martha. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see main record for MA 1029 for details.
To "my dear Martha."
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Martha. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see main record for MA 1029 for details.
To "my dear Martha."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Telling her that he and Maria "are scoring off the weeks which separate us from you"; asking Mr. Randolph to send a horse to replace his horse Tarquin; reporting that 500 bottles of wine have arrived for him in Baltimore; mentioning a box of clothes for the servants that was "irrecoverably lost" in transit.
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